END CHAIN MIGRATION: 4 More Bill Co-Sponsors (Chaffetz, Duncan, Mulvaney & Palazzo
Chain Migration
Chain Migration is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple from about 250,000 per year in the 1950s and 1960s to more than one million a year since 1990. As such, it is one of the chief culprits in America's current record-breaking population boom and all the attendant sprawl, congestion, school overcrowding, and other impacts that reduce American's quality of life. Chain Migration refers to the endless and often-snowballing chains of foreign nationals who are allowed to immigrate because the law allows citizens and lawful permanent residents to bring in their extended, non-nuclear family members.
Chain Migration is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple from about 250,000 per year in the 1950s and 1960s to more than one million a year since 1990. As such, it is one of the chief culprits in America's current record-breaking population boom and all the attendant sprawl, congestion, school overcrowding, and other impacts that reduce American's quality of life.
Chain Migration is about family reunification beyond the nuclear family. Until the late 1950s, America's immigration tradition of family unity had only included spouses and minor children. But since then, immigrants can also send for their siblings, parents and adult children. These non-nuclear family members actually get precedence over an immigrant’s nuclear family. This ill-conceived system also creates incentives for illegal immigration because adult relatives of legal residents are known to overstay their visas (becoming illegal aliens) in hopes of becoming legal immigrants. Moreover, since hundreds of millions of people in the world have a relative in the U.S., the migration chain can eventually reach them all.
The claim that chain migration is about “family reunification” ignores the fact that each immigrant who comes to the U.S. “disunites” another family by leaving some new relatives behind. If a person really wants to live near his/her extended family, he/she should remain in the country where that extended family lives. Except for the very small percentage of each year's newcomers who are refugees, nobody is forcing immigrants to leave their families.
On Feb. 15, 2011, Rep. Phil Gingrey introduced H.R. 692, the Nuclear Family Priority Act. The bill would end Chain Migration by eliminating several of the family preference visa classes that allow adult relatives to receive legal permanent residency status in the United States. Parents of U.S. citizens would be eligible for a renewable visa provided the immigrant's son or daughter can prove that they can financially support their parents and provide health insurance coverage.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 2:01 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
(clockwise from upper left) Reps. Chaffetz, Duncan, Mulvaney & Palazzo
Elected Officials Who...
- Sponsored the Nuclear Family Priority Act of 2011
Updated Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 11:53 AM EDT -Total 35 Sponsors
- (AL) Bachus
- (AL) Brooks
- (CA) Bilbray
- (CA) Calvert
- (CA) Miller
- (CO) Coffman
- (GA) Gingrey
- (GA) Graves
- (GA) Kingston
- (GA) Westmoreland
- (FL) Miller
- (FL) Nugent
- (FL) Ross
- (IN) Burton
- (IA) King
- (MD) Bartlett
- (MN) Kline
- (MS) Palazzo
- (NC) Foxx
- (NC) Myrick
- (NC) Jones
- (NJ) Garrett
- (OK) Sullivan
- (PA) Barletta
- (SC) Duncan
- (SC) Mulvaney
- (SC) Wilson
- (TN) Roe
- (TX) Carter
- (TX) Flores
- (TX) Johnson
- (TX) Marchant
- (UT) Chaffetz
- (VA) Forbes
- (WV) McKinley
Eliminating Chain Migration was a recommendation of the bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission issued in 1995.
Rep. Gingrey's bill would eliminate the extended family visa categories (e.g., siblings and married sons and daughters of citizens, etc.), thus ending “chain migration". Chain migration is the process where seemingly endless “chains” of foreign nationals are allowed to immigrate to the United States, since our laws allow citizens and lawful permanent residents to bring in their non-nuclear, adult family members. It is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple since the 1960s.
In a change from previous versions, the 2011 legislation would also eliminate the parents category and instead create a renewable 5-year visa class for the parents of U.S. citizens. The number of parents who came to the United States in 2009 was 82,000. However, the parents would not be eligible to work in the United States and a U.S. citizen son or daughter would have to provide satisfactory proof that they can financially support their immigrant parents, including proof of health care coverage while the parents are residing in the United States.
Furthermore, H.R.692 would reduce the annual number of family-sponsored immigrant visas available by 111,800.
Rep. Chaffetz represents Utah's 3rd Congressional District and is serving his 2nd term in Congress. Rep. Chaffetz has earned a career A+ grade and introduced the "No Amnesty" resolution during the 111th Congress. 
Rep. Duncan represents South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District. He is currently serving his 1st term in Congress and has earned a B grade. 
Rep. Mulvaney represents South Carolina's 5th Congressional District. He is currently serving his 1st term in Congress and was identified as a "True Reformer" during the mid-term elections. Rep. Mulvaney has already earned a B+ grade. 
Rep. Palazzo represents Mississippi's 4th Congressional District. He is currently serving his 1st term in Congress and was identified as a "True Reformer" during the mid-term elections. Rep. Palazzo has earned an A grade. 
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